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Article: DE SOLE ON FORD, FASHION -- AND ARNAULT.(Domenico De Sole resigns Gucci Group)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- April 30, 2004
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LONDON -- It was an action-packed and graceful goodbye.
Domenico De Sole spent his final day at Gucci Group making sure his stores around the world had enough tennis shoes, in particular the ones with the crocodile details and the signature red-and-green stripe.
"They've sold out, and I'm agitated about the reorders and deliveries," De Sole told WWD, just a few hours after the put by Pinault-Printemps-Redoute expired on Thursday afternoon. "There are two things I do well: get agitated and worry."
And when there's no more business to worry about? "I'll go nuts, probably," he said with a laugh.
In a telephone interview from New York, a ...